Will I Ever Know

Will I ever know  
how deep you go  
when your memories of my life  
can take you back to times and places  
hidden from myself sight?  

When you clothed and fed  
and nourished me  
and raised me up when I fell,  
and asked yourself so many times  
if I would turn out well?  

But if we could say what love is  
or live it in our hearts,  
we would know that growing up  
never stops once it starts.  

Will you ever know  
how deep I go  
when all the years gone by  
have taken me so far away  
and I never told you why?  

Now I live alone  
and I am on my own  
and I feel that it’s alright.  

And what I do  
comes back to you  
as a measure of your life.  

But if we could say what love is  
or live it in our hearts,  
we would know that growing up  
never stops once it starts. 

June 5 is Mom’s birthday. She would have been 90 today. I wrote this song for her around 1983 and it was scored to music by a friend of mine. I believed I had given it to her at the time. But I wonder now if I did so because I found the original score in my mementos during the KonMarie process, not in the mementos my mother kept that I had given her.

© Nick LeForce
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